Grade 9 English
- Write in your private journal and/or read silently
- Take a vocabulary quiz on the 44 basic lit terms and 7 Power Plus words: adjunct, admonish, alacrity, anachronism, anthropomorphic, aphorism and beget using this word bank
HOMEWORK: Take any of the interactive grammar quizzes you want for extra credit. Email your results to ak@webstaclecourse.com. Don't cheat! The goal is understanding. It is better to do a few super well than all of them poorly.
Grade 12 AP English Lit and Comp
- Write an in-class essay on Heart of Darkness
HOMEWORK: Complete your Heart of Darkness storyboard which is due at the beginning of the next class. Take this survey on this week's AP exam-prep sessions.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - CST SCHEDULE
Grade 9 English
- Write in your private journal and/or read silently
HOMEWORK: Take any of the interactive grammar quizzes you want for extra credit. Email your results to ak@webstaclecourse.com.
Grade 12 AP English Lit and Comp
- Turn in Heart of Darkness storyboards and read essay tips and Heart of Darkness essays
HOMEWORK: Complete your Heart of Darkness storyboard which is due at the beginning of the next class. Take this survey on this week's AP exam-prep sessions.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - CST SCHEDULE
Grade 9 English
NO CLASS; HOMEWORK: Same as Monday's
Grade 12 AP English Lit and Comp
- Turn in Heart of Darkness storyboards and read essay tips and Heart of Darkness essays
HOMEWORK: Study the lit terms for a test on Friday.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Grade 9 English
- Write in your private journal and/or read silently
- Begin reading To Kill a Mockingbird
HOMEWORK: Read through Chapter 1 of To Kill a Mockingbird
Grade 12 AP English Lit and Comp
- Play "I Have, Who Has" with the lit terms (bring the "I Have, Who Has?" games you made!)
HOMEWORK: Study the lit terms for a test tomorrow and take this AP exam-prep survey.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Grade 9 English
- Write in your private journal and/or read silently
- Read aloud or in small groups To Kill a Mockingbird
HOMEWORK: Read through Chapter 3 of To Kill a Mockingbird
Grade 12 AP English Lit and Comp
- Take the lit term test using this partial word bank
HOMEWORK: Revisit TECWIT and this list of past free-response (essay) questions, and if you so choose, come to the AP exam prep session tomorrow (Saturday) from 9:30-11:30am.
NOTE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN AWAY FOR VARIOUS SCHOOL ACTIVITIES:
The timeline was due before you left, so that will be met with a point reduction. You may turn in the Heart of Darkness storyboard Monday, May 6, and take the timed-write anytime before Monday, May 6, Per. 7 (the end of Per. 7). Please come in during my office hours (before school, after school, nutrition and lunch -- not passing periods) or email me to set up a time. Thank you!